...the worst of them being the
two-day stand-off (August 9-10) between Amud Ha'esh,
an armored division of reserve soldiers, and a
handful of Hezbollah fighters. The operation was
clumsy and confused, and ended without any kind of
accomplishment. It may well go down as one of the
most humiliating operations in the history of the
Israel Defense Forces...

Al-Harithy is convinced that simply
razing damaged houses and replacing them with new
construction and 33-foot-wide boulevards, as the
city’s mayor, Ali Bazzi, originally proposed, would
victimize residents again.....

Bint Jbeil, a Shiite town and bastion
of Hezbollah support, would seem an unlikely place
for reconciliation between Islam's rival branches.
But the international scramble to rebuild the damage
is providing an unlikely model for cooperation
between Sunnis and Shiites.....

What are Jews now capable of
resisting: tyranny? Oppression? Occupation?
Injustice? We resist none of these things, no
more... Our pathology is this: it lies in our
struggle to embrace a morality we no longer possess
and in our need for persecution of a kind we can no
longer claim but can only inflict...